Its not the number of tables that is of import, its the number of regions. You can have your regions in as many tables as you like. I do not believe there a cost to having more tables.
St.Ack On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Wayne <[email protected]> wrote: > How many tables can a cluster realistically handle or how many tables/node > can be supported? I am looking for a realistic idea of whether a 10 node > cluster can support 100 or even 500 tables. I realize it is recommended to > have a few tables at most (and to use the row key to add everything to one > table), but that is not an option for us at this point. What are the > settings that need to be tweaked and where are the issues going to occur in > terms of resource limitations, memory constraints, and OOM problems? Do most > resource limitations fall back to total active region count regardless of > the table count? Where do things get scary in terms of a large numbers of > tables? > > Thanks in advance for any advice that can be provided. >
